DevOps is closely related to the ideas of Lean Manufacturing. It describes:
- A culture of working in a way that combines development and operations, that focuses on the release pipeline
- A set of technologies that supplement that work, especially CI/CD pipeline software, container (orchestrators, Dockerfile etc)
- A mindset that focuses on measurement of actions, so that short feedback loops can be established, which enable fast development cycles with high reliability while fostering organizational learning
- A perspective, that looks at all the (software related) Value Streams in an organization and seeks to optimize them
The authors of the DevOps Handbook (Jez Humble et al) assert that three sets of principles (from Lean Manufacturing) are most important for transforming a business into a DevOps Organization:
- Principles of Flow
- _[[Principles
- of Feedback]]_
- Principles of Continual Learning
Sources
- DevOps Handbook
- The interwebs
